Jesse Gemstone

Jesse Gemstone (1976-) was an American televangelist and megachurch pastor who was a member of the prominent Gemstone family of evangelists.

Biography
Jesse Gemstone was born in Rogers, South Carolina in 1976, the eldest son of Eli and Aimee-Leigh Gemstone and the older brother of Judy and Kelvin. He followed in his father's footsteps as an evangelist for the Gemstone Salvation Center, and, from 1998 onwards, he was one of the hosts of the family's televangelism show, "The Righteous Gemstones". Gemstone lived in a mansion on the family compound in Rogers, where he lived an opulent life funded by tithes from the church's congregants. He also travelled around the world with his family and expanded the church to over 70 countries, although he had a turbulent personal life which he attempted to conceal. In 2019, a video showing him partying with a cocaine-using prostitute and a friend during Prayer Power Convention in Atlanta emerged, and blackmailers threatened to leak it unless he paid them a ransom of $1 million.